JANJIVAN BUREAU/PATNA: Bihar Intermediate topper Ganesh Kumar taken into custody and his resut suspended. Bihar School Exam Board chairman Anand Kishore told to media that Ganesh has given some wrong information in the board exam form, but his exam copies are very fare and correct.
“Ganesh had appeared in matric exam in 1990 and his date of birth was 7th November 1975, but Ganesh has change the birth date 2nd June 1993 in Intermediate exam form” says Anand.
He also told to the media person that Ganesh had appeared in matric exam from CRSAR School, Sariya of Giridih in 1990. Ganesh appeared as Ganesh Ram in matric exam where as in Inter exam he appeared as Ganesh Kumar.
Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB)’s Intermediate Arts 2017 topper Ganesh Kumar, also operated a chit fund company in Jharkhand. After seven years operation of the company Ganesh sink in the debt. A year after toppers scam exposed the existence of education mafia in Bihar, another topper Ganesh Kumar’s marks stirred a controversy on Thursday.
According to a source Ganesh is the resident of Sariya, Giridih. He was running a chit fund company, but he lost heavy money and then he decided to left the place.
Ganesh has brought back memories of BSEB’s 2016 Humanities “topper” Ruby Rai, who had stirred the hornet’s nest when she had said that her subject “prodikal science” was related to cookery. The investigations ultimately exposed the “topper scam”, a nexus of school administrators, BSEB officials and education mafias, for granting top merit positions in exchange of money.
Questions were also raised about Ganesh Kumar’s age, the date of birth he had mentioned in his admission form was June 2, 1993, which means he has turned 24. The result has also surprised his school teachers who said, “Even we had not expected such kind of result from a student of this institution.” Sources from Samastipur said that Ganesh Kumar’s school cancelled the felicitation program on Thursday following the controversy.
A resident of Giridih in Jharkhand, Ganesh, 24, has scored a total of 413/500 marks leaving behind 5.33 lakh students of the Humanities stream. Ganesh has scored a maximum of 92 marks in Hindi followed by 83 in Music (65/70 in practical and 18/30 in theory).
